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Hair fun at Play Pals! Our little ones have been busy this week exploring lots of hair-themed activities to incorporate our book of the week! From taking on the role of hairdressers in our role play salon to creating wonderful wacky hair designs and trying out different brushes, there has been plenty of creativity and imagination. 💇💇 These playful experiences help develop fine motor skills, encourage new vocabulary and give children opportunities to share, take turns and express their own ideas. We've loved seeing their unique creations! 💛 #PlayPals #LearningThroughPlay #CreativePlay #LittleHairdressers #Abram

💛 Hello Yellow at Play Pals! 💛 We celebrated World Mental Health Day on Friday by wearing yellow in support of 'Young Minds' Hello Yellow campaign, showing children and young people that they are never alone with their feelings. At Play Pals, we help our little ones feel safe, valued and listened to. We encourage them to talk about their feelings, show kindness to others and ask for help when they need it. Our yellow accessories were a bright reminder that every feeling matters and there is always someone here to listen. 💛 #HelloYellow #WorldMentalHealthDay #PlayPals #LittleMindsMatter

Over the weekend our children have been on an autumn walk and collected all things autumnal to bring into nursery. Some of the children have enjoyed making their own autumn wreaths using the leaves they had collected over the weekend🍂🍁 #QUESTtrust #EarlyYearsToEmployment #EarlyYearsAtPlayPals #CuriousMinds

This week in OOSC Hindley we took it in turns to use the drill (supervised) whilst we drilled holes into the conkers to thread the string through #playpalshindley #learninginaction #oosc #oldschool #nostalgic

Play Pals Hindley went on a walk on Wednesday to Amberswood to collect lots of natural resources such as leaves, sticks and conkers. We looked at different shapes and sizes, the natural sounds around us and enjoyed exploring the great outdoors #playpalshindley #learninginaction #greatoutdoors #firstoutingof2026 #amberswood

Our conker sheds #playpalshindley #whiterosemaths #learninginaction #woodenblocks #conkersheds

Lots of autumn themed experiences set up this week at Play Pals Hindley. We've opened our own conkers from the shells and played with them on the dumper trucks, we've been on a walk and collected some leaves and incorporated them into our play with the coloured rice and we built some conker sheds #playpalshindley #learninginaction #naturalresources #conkerplay #autumnfun

This week at Play Pals Hindley we have made use of the last of the apples that have grown on our tree in our garden over summer and made some apple crumble. The children helped to weigh and mix the ingredients together then we tried some for our afternoon snack, it was very yummy! #playpalshindley #learninginaction #minibakers #applecrumble #homegrown

🍀 🍂 🌳 To link with our book of the week, TIDY! We went on a lovely walk to Polly's Pond to explore the natural world. The walk gave the children opportunities to look for signs of autumn, notice trees and fallen leaves, and spot wildlife. Linking our surroundings to Pete the badger's story helped us explore why nature doesn't always need to be tidy and how leaves and branches can provide homes for animals and insects. It was a wonderful way to bring the story to life while encouraging curiosity, conversation and care for our environment. 🍀 🍂 🌳 #Abram #Tidy! #Nursery #Walk

This little piggy went to market 🐷🍌🛍 This week the children have had lots of fun exploring our pretend hay, play food and toy pigs while bringing the rhyme to life. A fun way to encourage imaginative play, language and sensory exploration 😊 #QUESTtrust #EarlyYearsToEmployment #EarlyYearsAtPlayPals #GrowingMinds

Last night in OOSC at Play Pals Hindley we ran outside and embraced the rain to see the beautiful double rainbow 🌈🌈 The children loved being out in the rain and didn't want to come back inside #playpalshindley #learninginaction #doublerainbow #outofschoolclub #spontaneous

🔻 🟥 This week in nursery as part of our White Rose Maths learning we are exploring shapes. Today we have been discussing names of different shapes such as, triangle, square, circle and star. The children have been very busy in the construction area finding and using these shapes to create wonderful buildings/towers. We have also designed our own colourful shapes in the mark making area. #WhiteRoseMaths

This week in the 2–3 room, we're exploring Dear Zoo. Today, the children had lots of fun washing the animals to make them nice and clean! 🧼💦 #QUESTtrust #EarlyYearsToEmployment #EarlyYearsAtPlayPals #EveryLessonCounts

This week at Play Pals Hindley we had a surprise visit from Gary the tortoise after he'd been to the vets. Everyone had a little giggle as he wiggled his bum when he had his lower back tickled and he enjoyed exploring around our garden 🐢 See you next time #playpalshindley #tortoise #petsfromhome #garythetortoise

Baking and making cakes to help raise funds for Wigan & Leigh Hospice as part of MacMillan Morning. The children enjoyed getting stuck in and we even licked our spoons once we had finished 😝🍫 We managed to raise £85.81 and still had some cakes left over so we took them over to the hospice so the staff and patients could enjoy the sweet treats #playpalshindley #givingback #bakeoff #wiganleighhospice #baking